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Does anyone know what the graphs would look like if we removed the r&d cost?
I wonder if it would be profitable once they stop spending like crazy on developing new models.
Based on the recently leaked OpenAI figures, still not profitable but it's much closer. They would have lost $1.7B rather than $20.9B